Getting it straight

The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.

We correct all errors of fact.

If you know of an error, write: Frank Fellone Deputy Editor P.O. Box 2221 Little Rock, Ark. 72203 or call 378-3475 during business hours Monday through Friday.

Gen. Joseph Dunford, the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said in an interview with The Guardian published in September that more than 100 Afghan security force members a week were then being killed, adding, “I’m not assuming that those casualties are sustainable.” A New York Times article in Tuesday’s editions contained an incorrect version of the quote and misreported when The Guardian published the interview.

Kim Gibson is a U.S. district judge in Pennsylvania who overruled the opinion of a U.S. magistrate judge, Keith Pesto, in deciding that a college student charged with making bombs in his Pennsylvania apartment should remain jailed until trial. An Associated Press article in some editions Sunday erroneously reported Gibson’s position and the nature of his court ruling, and the headline repeated the incorrect reporting about the nature of Gibson’s ruling.